mandatory meetings with teachers are held in the United States: the parents come to the school, meet the teachers, look, what and how. At one of these meetings, Brandy, who teaches at the second-graders, handed a note to parents with lethal information: homework will not be until the end of the year. Home only need to finish what the pupil did not finish in the classroom. The teacher asked the parents to use the free time to good use: to hold family dinners, the whole family to read books, to walk more on the street before going to bed.
Mom one of the students took a photo of the note.
I liked the idea much, judging by the huge number of likes and Sherov.
Indeed, Domashka not needed. That's why.
1. Homework is injurious to health
This is indicated by all parents: an ever-growing academic load and stress testing beaten on the health of children.
- Due to the high load children sleep less. They linger over textbooks late and are experiencing due to the estimates, in the end there are sleep problems The relation among sleep duration, homework burden, and sleep hygiene in chinese school-aged children. .
- Healthy school we almost not. Myopia, gastritis, chronic fatigue, incorrect posture - something out of a child is likely to have.
So maybe spit on this homework and assessment and do something more useful?
2. Homework takes away time
Today, children are busy as ever, said Peter Gray, a professor at Boston College. They spend too much time in school, then ran to the tutor, on the way back, wrapped in a section. Schedule tightly regulated, every hour taken into account.
Children learn languages, mathematics, programming. But they have no time to learn life.
Harris Cooper, a psychologist conducted research which showed that job to the house is not very effective: too large amount of information the child does not learn. Kids do not need more than 20 minutes of additional employment, senior - and a half hoursHomework in Elementary School. .
For comparison: according to our sanitary rules and a half hours - this volume for the second class. Graduates can spend on lessons for three and a half hours. Almost half of the working day, and it's after school. A live-when?
3. Homework does not affect the performance
Alfie Kohn, one of the main critics of education, wrote in a 2006 book, "Myths about homework." In it he said that for the younger students there is no connection between the amount of homework and achievement in their studies. In high school, the connection is so weak that almost disappears when applied to the study of more accurate methods of measurementRethinking Homework. .
With that not everyone agrees. Tom Sherrington, teacher assignments and practice quarterback at home, came to the conclusion that in elementary school benefit from homework is really a bit, but when the students over 11 years, the lessons help to achieve brilliant resultsHomework Matters. .
Long-term benefit from the abolition of homework did not really measure. Research Center TMISS figured out how much time students spend on homework in different countries. So, in fourth grade, only 7% of the students are not doing homeworkHow Much of Their Out-of-School Time Do Students Spend on Homework During the School Week. . Small figure for analysis.
4. Homework teaches nothing
School education is absolutely divorced from life. After many years of studying English graduates two words can not, they have no idea rest in any hemisphere, firmly believe in the power of homeopathy. Homework continue the trend: hammer head with facts that children can not apply.
I moonlighted as a student tutor, helping students to pull Russian. Initially, the children could not decline the most simple noun "door". In the eyes of only the fear: Now put the estimate. Half of each class had to devote to the topic "Russian language in everyday life", to prove that we did talk. For each case, I thought out proposal. Not the same as in the book, and this, as in life, "Quiet, cat door, tail pinch!" When children understand that all school knowledge - this is our world, evaluations improved dramatically and my help getting need not.
Remember how you learned, and compare the process with lessons Swiss school. If homework help reduce the gap Mezhuyev class and life from them would be a good judge. But this is not the case.
5. Homework kills the desire to learn
"Make lessons" still means either proreshat school examples, or read a few paragraphs. In fact, teachers push down on the house that did not have time to tell from bell to bell. It is so sad that homework turns into a heavy duty.
Worst of boredom only "creative" jobs, which are reduced to the drawings and presentations in PowerPoint. A fresh story with the work:
Child counterparts in the first class were given the task: to draw a sad departing starlings. If this task was given to me, I would have performed it so. In my version of the starling does not fly away, and go away, because it's so tragic. # # Vzakat yahudozhnikyatakvizhu
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In setting about the starlings had yet to explain the reasons for his sadness. I doubt that the starlings and the truth to tears worry because of the upcoming holidays, and will miss the Birches, but just that he had to answer.
That is, the child must miss home or engage in nonsense instead of communicating with friends, trips and sports activities. And who then learn to love?
6. Homework spoil relationships with parents
Many parents do the lessons with children and for children. It turns out so-so.
- The school curriculum has changed, parents knowledge obsolete.
- Many parents do not remember the simple examples from the curriculum and try to carry out tasks with an adult point of view. Children do not know how.
- Parents are not teachers. They have not learned to interpret material correctly to apply and verify. Often, such training is worse than none at all.
- Homework - a constant conflicts. Children do not want to do it, parents do not know how to motivate, joint exercises lead to impotence, and all of this translates into a quarrel.
What good homework
The problem is not homework, and not its quantity. And the fact that in the final form in which it is now, it is absolutely useless, only consumes time and health. From homework can achieve results if to reconsider the approach to it.
Homework is done in a comfortable environment, so the house can find answers to difficult questions and to understand the material. Of course, if there is time and effort.
If each student to develop individual homework, the student will be able to pull up the themes that he was not given, and develop strengthsHomework as an important component of Continuing Education. .
Brandy Young said this:
Pupils work all day. Houses there are more important things that also need to learn. Need to develop in different areas, what is the point to come home and buries in a notebook?
What do you think the homework necessary?